In collaboration with Penificent, a social enterprise that creates comic books and workshops that tackle social issues by taking inspiration from their lived experience growing up in London, we created Exploited and Criminalised. The story is based on Barnardo’s experiences of witnessing how young men who experience exploitation are regularly criminalised rather than identified as victims of exploitation. Therefore, they do not receive the support they need to recover. The idea was prompted by Barnardo’s 2019 Policy report of the same name and supports our calls for a statutory definition and consistent data collection on criminally exploited children. The comic is aimed at young people to open conversations and to amplify the issues of exploitation.